Against Hope

by Victor Santos

Overview

It has been years since an insane family of neo-Nazi's murdered her boyfriend and almost killed Hope — now she is tracking them down and exacting her bloody revenge.

Raised by a martial arts master, Hope grew from an angry and grieving teenage girl into a cold-hearted bounty hunter. When she discovers the family who brutalized her is now running for public office and controlling a cabal of violent white nationalists from the shadows, Hope gears up and hits the road with the intent to slaughter every single Nazi that gets in her way.

Victor Santos (Polar - now a hit Netflix movie) writes and draws a new story with brutal fight scenes and impactful revelations that echo across decades of the main character's life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506717968
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Victor Santos, born in Valencia, began his career in 1998 by contributing to fanzines and local papers. His first professional work was 'Gaijin', published from 2000 by 7 Monos, Dude Comics and Dolmen Editorial. He also took on the heroic fantasy series 'Los Reyes Elfos', and an anthology of short stories called 'La Doncella y los Lobos'. Santos has cooperated on the 'Pulp Heroes' saga at Astiberri, did the superhero comic 'Protector' (Dolmen), a juvenile comic called 'Aventuras en el Mundo Jung' (Aleta Ediciones), and fantasy titles like 'Faeric Gangs' (Astiberri) and 'Lone in Heaven' (Aleta). For the French publisher Soleil, he created the series 'Young Ronin', for which he does script, art and colors.

Editorial Reviews

05/25/2020

A brawl in a neo-Nazi bar kicks off this punchy but jumbled retribution tale by Santos (Bad Girls). Hope is devastated when Billy, the son of the neo-Nazi Herzfeld family, murders her boyfriend, Jai, for winning a school race (“come to my hometown and humiliate its champion?”). Billy’s family almost kills her, too, when disposing the body. After spending her teen years grieving, Hope perfects some fighting moves, pockets her “fuck Nazis” flask, and sets out to destroy Billy’s burgeoning career as a public official—and to take down every other Nazi that stands against her. The gory script is packed with righteous anger, though it’s sometimes delivered via predictable lines (“Sometimes you can see the face of evil so clearly that you have to fight it with everything you’ve got”). The plot can get confusing, jumping rapidly through points in Hope’s life. But Santos’s sharp, stylish art gifts verve to all the stabs and jabs. (And who doesn’t enjoy a story about Nazis getting what they deserve?) Despite the script’s plot holes, Santos offers an enjoyably vengeful heroine in Hope. (June)

Publishers Weekly